Trouble Department

Description

“Consistent chills. Irina’s work is deeply personal, yet offers the reader a strikingly beautiful invitation to experience the intensity of their own pain, as well as embrace the promise of their own personal power. This book bloods.” – Kate Kettlekamp

In They Will Not Bleed for Us, Irina explores family, love, society, and art. The book is organized into five parts according to family member, revealing the impact of upbringing and culture on the people we become. A collection of years’ worth of writing, this book is an attempt to heal by moving through. Many of the pieces you read here have seen the stage; most are performance pieces that are now given a different experience through the reader’s eyes and voice.